Mumbai, July 15 (IANS) Bowing to requests from various quarters, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary & Higher Secondary Education announced that the HSC results for the current year will be announced on Thursday (July 16), an official announcement said here on Wednesday.

Accordingly, the much-anticipated results will be declared online at 1 p.m. on Thursday simultaneously for all the nine Divisional Boards, said the MSBSHSE.

This year, an estimated 1.40 million students appeared for the HSC examinations vide around 7,000 higher secondary/junior colleges across the state.

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